A letter from Sir William Waller, a Member of the House of Commons, to the Right Honorable, Robert Earl of Essex his excellencie; of a great victory he obtained at Malmsbury, 23. Martii, in the county of Wilts: with the names of divers of the commanders in chief that he took, with 300 foot, a troop of horse, and many peeces of ordnance. Also a true relation of Sergeant Major Burghells valour, who went into the enemies quarters at Sherston, routed them, took twenty five prisoners, one captain, two lieutenants, one quarter-master, killed eight, and took forty or fifty horses and arms, without the losse of one man. Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, that this letter be forthwith printed and published: H: Elsynge, Cl. Parl. D. Com.
Waller, William,Sir,1597?-1668.
London : printed for Edw. Husbands, and are to be sold at his shop in the middle Temple,
March 28. 1643.
Wing (CD-Rom, 1996),
Thomason,
ESTC
Burghell, Sergeant Major
Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646